Francis, The /data root was an example, in my case it's /v/
What I want to do is: - get a request like /v/c85320d9ddb90c13f4a215f1f0a87b531ab33310 - proxy that to my back-end which tells nginx to serve a certain file (X-Accel-redirect). - I want to cache this file as the first access is expensive. (I want to cache *the file*, other requests can end up pointing to the same file, that's what I want to speed up). You are right that I'm not using proxy_pass; as my back-end is served by uwsgi I'm using uwsgi_pass. Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,275138,275163#msg-275163 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx